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08 Nov 2024
In October 2024, wheat prices reached multi-month highs due to weather-related planting delays in parts of the northern hemisphere, although they later eased as field conditions improved. Maize prices also strengthened slightly despite swift harvest progress in the [...]
10 Jul 2017
To help achieve global food security, heads of state and government from the world’s leading economies recognize the crucial role of functioning and transparent global commodity markets.
In the G20 leaders’ declaration, signed on 8 July in Hamburg, Germany, [...]
28 Jun 2017
Mr. Jesús María Silveyra of Argentina (right) is the new AMIS Chair. Mr. Silveyra took over the Chairmanship from Mr. Friedrich Wacker of Germany (left) during the 11th Session of the Global Food Market Information Group, 22-23 June [...]
02 Jun 2017
As part of its AMIS capacity building work, FAO released a comprehensive review of the available literature on how to build an agricultural market information system. The review discusses the rationale and background of market information systems as [...]
01 Jun 2017
Nigeria was handed over a Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) system to improve its data collection on agriculture during an official ceremony on 31 May 2017 in Abuja. The system was jointly developed by AMIS and the Food [...]
30 Mar 2017
Prices of food crops are naturally volatile as their supply depends on unpredictable factors such as weather. While volatility is not a problem per se, excessive price movements in global markets can pose a threat to world food [...]